New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-19
TORN TO PIECES ON THE ELEVATED ROAD.

TERRIBLE DEATH OF PATRICK DoIAN UNDER AN
ENGINES wHEELs-HE HAD BEEN DRINKING.
Patrick II. Doan manager Of the New-forR pr"nen vi
the Producers Marble Company. at No. 4ol sontn't'
was instantly killed and his body terribly manged yes
terday at 23O by being run over by an up train on
the Elevated Railway at the Nnth-st. station OF the
Third a We line Mr. Dolan his way home when
the accident occurred and from all that can be learned
was partly intoxicated
He had been calling on an old friend Samuel Williams,
of Philadelphia who had Just como to town ana was
sfaying at the st. Georges Hotel. and about In
company with the night clerk and John r. Kimbal OF
No Is East Ffteen,hst commission agent went out to
get last drink at liquor store In broadway the ~
Georges Hotel being closed at that hour The three men
left him ct Broadway and Twolfth-st about 300 a. H.
They say that he had drunk little. but not being drink
Ing man was visbiy affected by what for him an I'M
usual quantity Of liquor. Dolan was next
seen by John c. Waters, barkeeper. living
ut No Az East Fifeenth-st Waters he was going
s TIC the h Street fvasd The
stairs and Waters helped him up held him by the arm
door where the gateman stood. He then went down
stairs and heard as he did so the rumellne OF the sp
when he heard shout and blood irickling through
the tmbers of the railway He called Paronan Kern,
shapeless beneath the wheels Of the last couch. the
whole train having passed over IT,
the man at ALL and thai the st in,maon he had Of tho
accident he dying mans scream a and the rising tn. 90
the south end Of the platform His air brakes were al
the s'' usual nap"'di distance The body was carried
to the Fourteenth Precinct Police Station
and from there removed to the Morgue. where 1t was
identified about 10 O'Clock by william Barrett foreman
in the southst marble works. Barrett carried the news
Doans wife, who lives with her three children at No
$50 East One hundred and fourecnth-st. The terrible
coming after her nights anxiety at the unexpected
absence OF her husband completely Frustrated her.
Mr. Dolan thirty-six years old. lie was born IN
Rutland Vt, his family and that Of his wife live
lie had been for many years in the employ OF the Yer
mont Marble Company there. anu came 10 new 10TH
Two ago to occupy the responsible position which
he filled with the Producers Marble Company He ell
joyed the confidence OF his employers by whom he was
trusted make large contracts In this city and Its VI
cinity.
curious feature OF the Is the story Of the gate
man, John Clancy G. NJ. Bailey, secretary OF Colonel
LAIN manager of the Manhattan Railway Company
said TO TRIBUNE reporter yesterday:
Clancy night gateman positively denies that the man
through his door dropped ticket into his boz lie
says did the ALL hear any scream
larger OF found between The station
platform rail as II tho lying there be
approached This would seem to indicate that
Doan climbed OF the pillars from the pavement we
instances OF people climbing i'll this way
and of them at this station
As Mr. Doan short and stout and the testimony OF
Waters directly conadcts the eatcmans this Ingenious
theory OF the employees Of the company Will hardly gain
credence.